Autumn Jubilee Block 2 and Mini Quilt

Are you ready for Block 2 in the Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along? Our giveaway sponsor today is Connecting Threads! You’ll need to gather your orange fabrics for this one, along with more background scraps and just a bit of green.

The second block for the quilt along is a pumpkin design. The pumpkin block finishes at 6 inches square.

Sew the green scrap between the two background strips, short sides matching, right sides together. Press toward the green.

Sew the orange strips together on the long sides. Position a 1-1/2-inch background square on each corner and sew diagonally across the square, like making a snowball block.

Be careful to sew exactly on the line or you may end up with this.

Trim the seam allowance to 1/4-inch. Press to the orange side.

Sew the pumpkin to the stem. Square up to 6-1/2-inches.

Make one pumpkin block for the mini quilt this week. Arrange three leaves of different colors (or three multi-color leaves) and one pumpkin block in the layout below. Vary the direction of the leaf stems. Add a border of 1-1/2 inches wide background fabric. Be sure to measure your borders, they should be two strips of 12-1/2-inches long, and two strips of 14-1/2-inches long.

Quilt as desired. I used my favorite fall pantograph with leaves and pumpkins.

Before binding, add hangers to the top edge of the back for your stand. Leave these off if you plan to use it as a candle mat or on a table. Start with two pieces of backing fabric cut 1-1/2 inches by 4 inches. Bring the short sides together and sew with a 1/4 inch seam. Press with the seam open in the middle of one side. Turn right side out. Fold up so the raw edges are together with the seam inside, and press. Sew to the top edge of the backside of the quilt, about 4 inches in from each side, before adding the binding. See HERE if this doesn’t make sense. Bind as usual.

Hang on your mini quilt stand. The final size of the mini-quilt is 14-1/2 inches square. If you prefer, you can leave the borders off and just bind the blocks to finish at 12-1/2 inches square.

Now the fun part, add a face to the pumpkin using black wool or felt. I cut out the shapes, and just pressed them onto to the pumpkin, then pinned them from the back. Now, when Halloween is over, I can remove the wool face and still use the mini-quilt through Thanksgiving. I’ll store the face pieces by pinning them on the backside of the mini-quilt so I won’t lose them for next year. For October, the pumpkin header on the stand reminds me of the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown video, remember Linus rolling the big pumpkin around the fence?

You’ll need more leaves and pumpkins for the layouts for the next two projects, so keep making them this week! Next project will be next Friday. You’ll need eight more pumpkins for the next two weeks. The last one in this pic was used in the small project below.

Today’s post giveaway is from Connecting Threads! They will send a mini-quilt stand with a leaf and acorn topper to one lucky commenter on this post, just like the one in the picture on the left!

Just visit Connecting Threads, then come back and leave a comment on this post with your pick for your favorite fabric collection from their current offerings. The drawing will be held November 1, so you have plenty of time to enter and tell your friends! Followers of my blog can leave a second comment for a second entry. Giveaway was in 2016. New readers, welcome! Please have a look around, I do a lot of different things here.

If you only did one leaf, make a hot pad or mug rug with your pumpkin from today. Position the leaf and pumpkin with sashing of a pretty autumn print. Quilt with Insul-Bright batting, also available at Connecting Threads.

If you missed the post last week showing the leaf block, click on Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along. And upload your progress pictures to the Flickr Group Autumn Jubilee! For next week, you’ll need more leaves and pumpkin blocks for the runner. The choice of how many is up to you, but I think you will be happiest with at least four pumpkins and eight leaves. I’ll show you several designs, so happy sewing this week!

I’m a follower & thank you for that early morning post! I love your little acorn mini rack. What is the largest size that you can put on a rack like that? I have a sweet spot in my kitchen that may have to have one of those racks! I like the idea of a mini, as it gives you some immediate satisfaction on a project completed. I am going to “save my leaves” already done, add to them some pumpkins, and play with these when I come home from my trip to Texas. I will have a 3 days sewing retreat, so I know I will get the projects done. (Meanwhile I have been collecting more “fall colors” into a Autumn Jubilee project box to play with!)

I’m going to see if I have enough orangy fabrics that I could use to make a pumpkin – your tut looks nice and easy to make, thanks. I keep looking for one of those stands but not seen any available in the UK and not cheap to buy with p/p from USA. Loved today’s post and my daughter liked your recent card post 🙂

Oh I’m sooo looking forward to the fact that there is rain in our forecast this weekend as I want to make some of these leaves and pumpkins!! Sooooo cute! And your little jack-a-latern idea…ingenious!!!

Oh, how fun! Can’t wait to get to the pumpkins, I made 8 of the leaves, but mine are 8″, not 6″, I’ll have to play with pumpkins so they are 8″. I used some diagonal blocks I already made a few weeks ago! Thank you to Connecting Threads for the awesome giveaway! I live their Christmas Remembered Sampler Fabric!

They have such great fabric selections, I order from them a lot. I like the Folk Blossoms and would love to make a quilt out of that fabric line. Their sample packs make cute throws and I use the Christmas ones for ornaments.

I love the Dance of the Dragonfly collection. I’m always drawn to combinations of blues and greens; with the metallic highlights this i’s like having Tinkerbell dancing across your quilt! I only recently found your blog and I so enjoy it. Thank you for your creative ideas and beautiful photos. I look forward to you posts every day.

I have always wanted a mini quilt stand and this is one I love! Yours is the perfect mini to hang in this season. I really like Quilter’s Candy Summer Solids Samplers and I already have a quilt pattern in mind to sew with it! Thanks!

What a fun fall project. I have 10 or 12 leaves made, ready to make pumpkins–these could be made into placemats. My fave connecting threads collection is Rhoda Ruth, I think…..actually I like them all! Hard to choose. Their quality is fantastic, also, in case anyone is skeptical. Happy quilting!

Connecting threads favorites Hudson Valley & Christmas Remembered holds special meaning when I think of name of this collection 2011 our last Christmas with our son & my Mom .thank you for sharing so many wonderful ideas,patterns and as always fun offers .

Hard choice! I really narrowed it down to two: Days of Christmas and Wild Flowers and Honey. I can’t get it any narrower than that! Thanks for the pumpkin pattern. I think I can get at least this much done!

Dance of the Dragonfly is my favorite fabric collection. Thank you for getting me motivated. I made a new curtain for the breakfast area. Two wreaths were recycled and updated. 9 pumpkins finished and 6 leaves. Going in to quilt the little wall hanger. thanks for your great ideas for the cards too…..Love your site and great instructions…..Elaine Nemeth North Florida

Oh I love this final block you designed! what a really nice project for fall-I love connecting threads-I especially love their threads and is what I use for my quilting and sewing projects. I do not need anything now so not entering the drawing though-good luck everyone

I love the new Scarlet collection but also the Serenity I love all of your quilts and still need to do Tango – I do have it saved so that when I get some of my UFOs done can start that one. Not to mention the cute little fall blocks. Thank you for all you do and give us

I love Connecting Threads! Any fabric I have bought has been top quality. Kits have plenty of fabric to more than finish the projects. I really like the Scarlett collection 😊. Sometimes it is hard to find nice reds. Almost finished my first little mini wall hanging and looking forward to next Friday!

My pick would have to be Storytellers, a Nancy Gere collection…..gorgeous browns, reds, blues, sages and neutrals….yummy! I was surprised at the really good prices. Thanks for a chance to win…..love the leaves and pumpkins…..

You realize you’ve given us an impossible challenge with all the lovely fabrics on the Connecting Threads site! If I have to choose, it would be either shimmer 2 or black and white by northcott. I’ll be starting my autumn jubilee challenge later this week. Thanks for this fun quilt along.

Spiced Potpourri gives me the warm, traditional feel I look for when making Autumn pieces. But Spooks & Spells is a fun, seasonal collection as well. So hard to choose! Thanks so much for the quilt along – I’m thinking Christmas presents :-).

Hi again Carole…I must have not found you when you were doing this Autumn Jubilee back in fall 2016. This is so adorable, I am going to try to make these this year! Thank you so much!! Hope you do some more quilt-alongs like this…so creative and fun. Love the face on the pumpkin! Happy Sept 1, Linda

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